Challenge Overview
Project Overview
Client seeks to leverage a customer care portal that will attract, engage, convert and retain customers to increase top line revenue growth. Through the use of customization and personalization, Client will engage its customers by allowing them to quickly locate the information they need. Client is certain that improving access to information, demonstrating thought leadership in its online offering of analytical data and improving customer care will increase the likelihood that a customer will return to the site and continue to do business.
At a minimum, prospective and current customers need to be able to:
- Use the portal in a self-sufficient manner with appropriate multimedia help menus and manuals
- Access necessary information such as analytical results, trending, reports, invoices, etc
- Monitor the progress of our work for them in a unified manner
- Interact with or initiate an “off-web” contact with Client technical staff
- Review industry-relevant regulatory requirements and best practices
- Function on PC platforms as well as mobile devices such as iPhones, iPads, Droids, etc.
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Competition Task Overview
This project will provide read-only access to the analytical data and invoices in the existing database.
Detailed Requirements
Please find detailed requirements in the provided documents.
Note: if possible we'd like to have no more than 3 assembly contests. If it has to be more please provide explanation in your submission.
Open Source Library
Please check with us in contest forum.
TC Components
TC components not allowed.
Technology Overview
- Windows Server 2008R2
- Active Directory
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- IIS 7.0
- Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0
- C#
- ASP.NET
- HTML5
Documentation Provided
The following documents are provided:
- ERD of the existing database that contains analytical data and invoices to be viewed using this application. You're supposed to add tables/attributes/relationships to make this website work even though the analytical data and invoices will be readonly to this application.
- Conceptualization
- Wireframes
Final Submission Guidelines
Submission Deliverables
- Application Design Specification
- TCUML containing interface/class definitions, assembly diagram, sequence diagrams, etc.
- ERD
- Assembly Specifications (NO COMPONENTS)
- Must provide sufficient details because this project is assembly direct
Submission Guidelines
For each member, the final submission should be uploaded to the Online Review Tool.
Base Payment
TopCoder will compensate members with first and second place submissions. Initial payment for the winning member will be